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I’ll put it another way.
It’s nearly impossible for people with criminal pasts to reintegrate into society if everyone just goes around assuming that they fucked up once and therefore will fuck up again.
So, I was suggesting that linking his criminal past with his infidelity is an extension of this.

Under the punitive system. So, instead of calling individuals names, maybe hold the system accountable instead.

I really think you are refusing to hear me.
Once the person has served their time, we are supposed to move on. It’s shitty to keep bringing up their criminal past.
Is it shitty to cheat on your wife? Yes, absolutely. But his criminal history isn’t really related.

I think you’re missing the context of this comment.
If you condemn someone who has already served their time, then you are implying that they are unfit for society and thus must think they should have served a life sentence for their crime.
Or you did understand but wanted to perpetuate stigma against people with…

“a person who has a history of bad decisions will often make bad decisions again”
Life sentence it is then.

But you didn’t call him a scumbag based on any knowledge of his previous romantic history, only his criminal history.

Okay. Put simply, you are perpetuating stigmas about people who have criminal histories.

So this brings me back to the question I asked about a life sentence. If we accept that we have a punitive system, then we also need to accept that someone who has served their sentence has learned their lesson and we relinquish our right to take the moral high ground on everything they do afterward. “Criminal”…

You made a link between 2 things that are unrelated though. His criminal history doesn’t really have anything to do with him cheating on his wife.

I’m saying that he went to prison served his time. What else would you have him do? Do you think he’s going to reoffend? And if so, what’s your solution? A life sentence?
“Criminal” shouldn’t have to be his identity for the rest of his life.

Deserved? Neccessary perhaps. But deserved is a fucked up way of view this situation.

What an unkind thing to say about someone you don’t know. Maybe you’re right though and instead of condemning this man, you could look into how and why the punitive justice system doesn’t work.

That’s a really awful judgment you’re making on someone you don’t know who has served their time.

It’s really fucked up to me that most of the comments on here are “He’s a felon, of course he also cheats on his wife. What did she expect?”
In the case of Meeks, he went to prison and he served his sentence, what more do you want from him?
I don’t understand how on the one hand Jez commenters understand that there…

I think calling this abandonment is incorrect. She gave the dog to someone who offered to adopt.
Also, your anecdote doesn’t prove or disprove anything.

Ugh, I was so annoyed, I forgot the word “dumb”

“I think that, you know, if we, both her and I, can be representatives of strong women that come together despite their differences, I think the whole world is going to go like, ‘Yeah, well we can do this.’”
Thanks for really drawing attention to how this statement is.

Drug addiction is usually the symptom of a larger issue. Here, have a TED talk.

I really disagree. I think that having women of colour in cast sends the message that misogyny affects us all equally when that isn’t the case. Ignoring the white supremacist element of the story erases intersectionality. I think the lack of people of colour in the cast would have been very conspicuous and…